Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday gave
reasons why most Nigerian Engineers are boycotted by Federal government
during the award of major infrastructural projects. Fashola disclosed
this when he spoke with the executives of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers, NSE, who paid him a visit in Abuja yesterday.
“If there was no vacuum, there would not be foreign engineering
consultants and contractors in Nigeria. Unless we honestly stand up and
accept that there is a vacuum, we look in the mirror and tell ourselves
that we honestly do not like what we see, it will not change. I can tell
you from experience when I was a state governor, that when I advertised
for rail project, no Nigerian firm bidded for it. Government will not
stop the development of the country, if you are not ready.”he said
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